NMPIC Newsletters
"Take Your PIC," the New Mexico Prescription Improvement Coalition's monthly newsletter for health care providers in New Mexico
December 2009
FDA Unveils Safe Use Initiative that Targets Preventable Harm from Medication Use; What Resources Do Doctors Seek fo Health, Medical or Drug Information?; Drug Safety: FDA Has Begun Efforts to Enhance Postmarket Safety, but Additional Actions Are Needed; Hospital Advisory Councils Improve Patient Care; NMPIC Updates: MTM Project, E-Prescribing Project, E-Prescribing Project - Phase 1 Evaluation
November 2009
Changes Published on Physician Quality Reporting Initiative and Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program; Rhode Island Reports E-Prescribing Success Led to Unique System for Tracking Swine Flu; CVS Caremark Launches Multi-Year Study on Patient Medication Adherence; Walgreens Sees Large Increase in E-Prescribing; Policy Recommendations Offered for Improving Medication Adherence; Drug Safety Data Snapshot; NMPIC Updates: PIMs, MTM Project, E-Prescribing Project
October 2009
Surescripts to Adopt Standard Aimed at EHR Meaningful Use; SureScripts® to More than Double E-Prescribers in 2009; Legislation Would Provide Health Care IT Loans to Pharmacists; General Practitioners Write Most Prescriptions for Mental Health Drugs; NMPIC Updates
August 2009
"First Statewide Recommendation Issued on Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly"
July 2009
Surescripts Releases New Mexico E-Prescribing Progress Report; Next NMPIC Regional Meeting - Las Cruces; NMMRA, Medicaid Speak at State Physician Meeting on E-Prescribing; E-Prescribing Project Update; NMMRA Drug Safety Work Highlighted in National Provider Webinar; HRSA PSPC Collaborative to Begin Wave II
June 2009
Challenges Persist with Stark Law Relaxation Subsidies; Southern Indiana HIE to Implement E-Prescribing Solution; Free Webinar: Medication Management; Health Care Reform Bill Offers Opportunities for Pharmacists; Prescription Drugs Are Losing to Generics in the War for Consumer Dollars; NMPIC Updates: E-Prescribing Pilot, MTM Pilot, HRSA PSPC Collaborative, PIMs
May 2009
CCHIT Releases Ambulatory EHR, E-prescribing Criteria; Walgreens Sees Boom in E-Prescriptions; IT Influences Lower Adverse Drug Events: Study; Fatal Overdoses on Prescription Medications a Growing Problem; NMPIC Updates: E-Prescribing Pilot, MTM Pilot, HRSA PSPC Collaborative, PIMs
April 2009
Diabetes Patients Cut Back on Health Care during Recession; Report Finds “Significant Growth” for E-Prescribing Since 2006; Eight Vendors Achieve Advanced Certification Status for E-Prescribing; E-Prescribing Prototype in the Works for New York; PIMs Advisory Board Formed, Press Conference Planned to Introduce Clinical Guidelines; NMPIC Semi-Annual Meeting Held in Albuquerque, Transition to Regional Meetings Planned; New Mexico MTM Team to Present at National HRSA Meeting
March 2009
Economic Stimulus Package Update; HCIdea Enhanced to Simplify Prescription Routing, IDing E-Prescribers; Wal-Mart to Sell EHR System at Sam’s Clubs; General Mills First to Adopt New Worksite Pharmacist Program; E-Prescribing and MTM Pilot Updates; It’s Not Too Late to Register for NMPIC’s Semi-annual Meeting 3/26
February 2009
CCHIT Expediting E-Prescribing Certification per Stimulus Bill; AHRQ Issues New Report on Barcode Medication Administration Projects; Spotlight on Sucess: New Mexico Orthopaedics Shares Experiences on E-Prescribing Adoption and Use; NMPIC Makes the Newspaper; Register Now for NMPIC's Semi-Annual Meeting
January 2009
Update on NMPIC Strategic Planning for 2009-11; New PIM Advisory Board Formed; NMPIC Launches E-Prescribing Pilot; MTM Project Patient Recruitment Underway; Spotlight on Success: Taos Pharmacy and Holy Cross Hospital; New Mexico Presents at National HRSA Learning Session
December 2008
"High-Low Connected EMR Practice Evaluation Results Released"
November 2008
"How to Participate in Medicare's E-Prescribing Incentive Program"
October 2008
"National E-Prescribing Conference Held; Clinician Guide Released"
September 2008
"Proposed DEA Rules on E-Prescribing Controlled Substances"
August 2008
"MTM Project Underway; Two Focus Groups Convened"
July 2008
"The SureScripts-RxHub Merger: How Will This Help E-Prescribing?"
June 2008
"Join the National Patient Safety / Pharmacy Collaborative"
May 2008
"Act to Cover Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner Services Introduced into U.S. House"
April 2008
"More Medicare Standards on E-Prescribing Initiatives"
March 2008
"New Mexico Launches Medicaid E-Prescribing Initiatives"
February 2008
" E-Prescribing Forum 2 Reaches Hospital Leaders, Medicaid Physicians"
January 2008
"NMPIC Receives Support Funding to Improve Medication Use for Medicare Patients"
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